The only woman inducted into the TABB Hall of Fame, Mary Coffey was a trailblazer out of necessity. The rest is her-story.
With a father and brothers in the sheet metal industry, Mary Coffey was ready for a career in the sheet metal industry after graduating from high school. Yet the industry was not ready for her. In the 1960s, women were mostly shut out of the sheet metal unions, so Coffey went to college instead, majoring in health and physical education, married and started a family.